7 hotels
The great hotels of New Zealand
7 luxury hotels in New Zealand are documented in this guide, ordered by international renown. The oldest, Huka Lodge, opened in 1924; the most recent, Otahuna Lodge, in 2007. Each page gives the history, the key figures and a direct line to the events team.
Huka Lodge
A trout-fishing camp pitched by an Irishman on the Waikato River in 1924 grew into the lodge whose lawns run down to the water above Huka Falls.
22 rooms
Rosewood Kauri Cliffs
A lodge on a 6,000-acre Northland farm where fifteen holes of the golf course look out over the Pacific towards the Cavalli Islands.
The Farm at Cape Kidnappers
Twenty-two suites sit on a 6,000-acre sheep and cattle station above the Pacific, beside a Tom Doak golf course on the Cape Kidnappers cliffs.
Otahuna Lodge
Sir Heaton Rhodes's 1895 Queen Anne mansion below the Port Hills, where his daffodils still turn the grounds yellow each September.
Matakauri Lodge
A lodge on the shore of Lake Wakatipu named after the Māori hero who, in legend, burned the giant whose body made the lake.
Blanket Bay
Tom Tusher built a lodge of schist and recycled timber at the head of Lake Wakatipu in 1999, with the Humboldt Mountains filling every window.
Eichardt's Private Hotel
A private hotel on the Queenstown lakefront, on the site where William Rees's woolshed became a miners' hotel in the 1862 gold rush.